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The first monastery

Three-storey brick building.

The first monastery, with the 1902 expansion. SNDBC History Centre

 

The first nuns initially lodged on the third floor of the bishop’s palace. But it soon became necessary to build a convent for them. In 1895, a first monastery was erected on the property of the Bishop’s palace, and then expanded in 1902. The Congregation grew very fast, as a new convent was built higher up on the cape.

Painting of a three-storey red-brick building surrounded by trees and vegetation.

The first monastery, with the 1902 expansion. 1982 painting by Sister Marguerite Pedneault (Hermance-de-Jésus) of the SNDBC Congregation @Centre historique SNDBC